JavaScript tooling is notoriously complicated on the front-end, not the back-end. And I doubt they're saying that they switched to Python on the front-end.
The distinction was that cdnsteve was motivated to switch to Python due to issues with the toolchain and build system, not that JavaScript was weakly-typed.
> JavaScript tooling is notoriously complicated on the front-end, not the back-end. And I doubt they're saying that they switched to Python on the front-end.
You have a good point, though you still have to pull in dependencies and deal with NPM when running JS on the server-side (especially if the server is doing non-trivial stuff). Idk, maybe an approach with server-side rendering using Python did away with much of the JS usage which made things nicer.
And as for build tools, people like to complain way too much, maybe they prefer just using bash scripts instead..